Harold Pinter: A Celebration
A celebration of the work of Harold Pinter will be held on Sunday 7 June in the National's Olivier Theatre at 7.00pm.
Ian Rickson will direct excerpts and readings from Pinter's work. The performers will include Eileen Atkins, David Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, Janie Dee, Andy de la Tour, Lindsay Duncan, Colin Firth, Henry Goodman, Sheila Hancock, Douglas Hodge, Lloyd Hutchinson, Jude Law, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Indira Varma, Samuel West, Lia Williams, Penelope Wilton, Susan Wooldridge, Henry Woolf, and students from LAMDA.
Harold Pinter died on 24 December 2008. A number of his plays premiered at the National: Betrayal, No Man's Land, Other Places and Mountain Language (directed by the author), and his adaptation (with Di Trevis) of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Other productions of his work at the National included The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, a revival of No Man's Land which he also directed, The Hothouse and, most recently, Landscape and A Slight Ache. The many awards in recognition of Harold Pinter's work included the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Tickets for the celebration are limited to two per person and are available in person or by telephone from the National Theatre box office: 0207 452 3000.
